Hair-curling device and process thereof



Jul 25, 1939. J A K LS 2,167,387

v HAIR-(FUELING DEVICE AND PROCESS THEREOF Filed Sept. 15, 1938 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 attorney 5 3nven tor Patented July 25, 1939 UNITED STATES HAIR-CURLING DEVICE AND PROCESS THEREOF Jacob A. Kols, Columbus, Ohio Application September 15, 1938, Serial No. 230,068

6 Claims.

One object of. the invention is to provide an improved construction of protector for use in hair dressing.

Another object of the invention is to provide in such construction of protector a form adapting it for compactly locating on the head of the person curls of hair made in connection with the protectors in substantially'concentric curves.

A further object of the invention is an improved process of waving hair.

Other objects will appear from the disclosure herein.

The invention is embodied in the example of features herein shown and described.

In the accompanying drawings- Figure 1 is a plan view of a protector according to the invention and showing the hinged end members thereof opened and with a small portion of one of said end members broken out.

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing such end members closed and latched as in tuft holdingor clamping position.

Fig. 3 is a view in elevation of the upper edge of the protector as seen in Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a view in elevation of the lower edge of the protector as seen in Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 is a View in elevation looking at the right hand end of the protector as seen in Fig. 2.

Fig. 6 is a cross section of the protector on the line VIVI looking to the right.

Fig. 7 is a diagrammatic view in the fiat illustrating a typical lay out of the protectors on the head of the person whose hair is being permanently waved.

Fig. 8 is an isometric perspective of a pad to be placed next the head to first receive the tufts before applying the protector.

Fig. 9 is a top plan view of another form of protector in which a feature of the present invention can be embodied, said form having its two hair clamping members closed and latched.

Fig. 10 is a View similar to Fig. 9 showing the hair clamping members of Fig. 9 opened.

Fig. 11 is a cross section on the line XI-X[ Fig. 9.

Fig. 12 illustrates a form of pad for use in connection with the construction of protector depicted in Figs. 9 and 10.

In the views, and referring first to the construction of protector shown in Figs. 1 to 6 inelusive, the character l5 designates the portions of the bottom plate, and IS the portions of the top plate, these plates being secured together and spaced from each other by ordinary shouldered separating rivets located at l1, l8 and [9 to provide a ventilating space between the plates.

The several portions of the upper plate IE are bent up or elevated as shown at l6 to make room for hair tuft clamps 20 of rubber or other suitable resilient material, said clamps being secured 5 in channel pieces 2| connected with the vertical walls of the elevated portion Iii of the top plate portion.

The frame of the protector as shown is divided vertically into three parts including a middle -10 portion having-a lateral angular extension and end portions hinged thereto also having portions at the lateral extension. These end portions are hinged to the middle portion at 22, 22, so that the rubber hair clamping portions can be sepa- 15 rated, as best depicted in Fig. 1, to permit the separate insertion between said rubbers of two gathered tufts of hair and the closing and tight clamping of said rubbers on the hair.

The means for latching each of the hinged end portions or members of the frame of the protector to the middle section or portion as shown includes a pin 23 on a fiat lug 24, the latter, when the end member is swung to closing position and enters the space between the upper and 25 lower plates of the intermediate portion of the frame and carries the pin 23 into a slit 25 of the upper plate of the intermediate member with the upper end of said pin projecting above the upper plate to receive the curved end of a hook 0 26 pivoted on the upper plate adapted to engage said pin and hold the end section of the protector in closed position on the middle section as best shown in Fig. 2. p

In order thatthe tuft of hair shall be tightly clamped between each of the pairs of clamping members the rubber hair clamping member on each hinged end portion is secured in a movable channel piece 2'! having a stem 28 that slides through a hole in the vertical wall of the elevated portion of theprotector; and said stem 23 is provided with a transverse pin 29 entering a straight guiding slot 30 in a piece 3| secured to the upper surface of the upper plate.

Pivoted to said affixed piece 2|, or to the plate, is a lever32 having a cam at its fulcrumed end adapted, when turned in the proper direction, to forcethe said stem 28 and its clamping member toward the companion clamping member and therefore pinch and hold the tuft of hair between them.

The upstanding fork-like portions 33, 33, on the opposite ends of the protector are for the purpose of receiving the usual curling device (not shown) on which the hair is curled from the ends thereof toward the roots of the hair or the socalled croquignole method.

It will be observed that in plan or bottom view the body of the protector when the parts are closed as shown in Fig. 2 consists of an elongated rectangular portion with a triangular portion extending from a longer side thereof.

The isosceles form of the triangular portion favors the assembling of the protectors in close relation to one another as depicted in Fig. '7.

A pad which may be of the usual springy material to be interposed between the scalp and protector thus far described is illustrated in Fig. 8. The said pad preferably has in plan view the configuration of the bottom of the protector and is provided with the longitudinal slots 3A, 34, for the passage and reception of the tufts of hair and transverse slits 35,35 extending from said slots to the rim of the pad so that the pad can be sprung in its plane to open said slits independently of each other to permit the pad to be slid laterally onto the tufts of hair to occupy the slot. The pad shown in Fig. 8 is designed for use in connection with the form of protector shown in Figs. 1 to 6 inclusive. Tufts of hair without the pad are indicated as extended through the protector in Fig. 4.

The view Fig. '7 illustrates diagrammatically the lay-out or plan on which the pads and pro-' tectors can be arranged on the head. In this view the several pentagons represent either the pads or the protectors it being observed that with this construction the pads, with their superimposed protectors can be arranged in substantially concentric curves around the protector at A, which latter is preferably first placed with the tufts therein at the middle of the head next the forehead. With this arrangement and method of placing the protectors on the head it will be readily understood that the concentric rows of curls will tend to curve as the lines are increased forward toward the face from a fore and aft middle line of the crown of the head. This plan or arrangement provides for making the curls in one direction and closer to the scalp, and when skillfully done will form a series of curls of novel style or arrangement and pleasing effect.

Moreover, with this scheme of placing the pads and protectors on the head it will not be necessary to place some protectors transversely of lines of curls as is now the practice.

In Figs. 9, and 11 there is shown an ordinary two-part protector body adapted for arrangement on the head according 'to the lay-out shown in Fig. '7. In the said views Figs. 9, l0 and 11 the two rectangular parts 38 and 39 of the protector are provided with rubber tuft clamps 4D and M respectively that are hinged together with a link at one end, as at 42, while at the other end there is provided on one of the parts a link 43 and cam lever M the latter adapted to engage a socket 45 on the opposite part to hold and press the resilient members together on a tuft of the hair.

In the instance shown in the said views Figs. 9, and 11 the triangular extension 46 is on that part bearing the socket 45 to receive the cam end of the latch lever.

As shown in the sectional view Fig. 11 the protector of this form can be made of ventilating character by securing together with spacing rivets at 48 the top and bottom plates substantially as in the first described construction.

A pad such as shown in Fig. 12 of springy material can be used in connection with the form of protector shown in the said Figs. 9, 10 and 11 and such pad is provided with a single opening as at All through which the tuft of hair is drawn.

The parts of the protector have been constructed chiefly of metal but the materials of the parts and their forms and number can be changed without departing from the gist of the invention as claimed.

What I claim is:

The process of curling hair on the human head consisting in forming permanent curls in lines that are substantially concentric curves around the upper middle portion of the forehead.

The process of curling hair on the human head consistingin forming thereon a series of curls curled in the same direction in lines that are substantially concentric curves around the upper middle portion of the forehead.

3. A protector of the class described, the body of which includes an elongated portion composed of two hair clamping parts of substantially rectangular form hinged together at one end, one of said parts provided with a guiding extension projecting longitudinally and laterally therefrom in substantially the form of an isosceles triangle based on said part.

4. A protector of the kind described, the body of which includes 'a middle portion and portions hinged to the opposite ends of. said middle portion, said middle portion and end portions having cooperating hair clamping members and also having lateral extensions coinciding when closed together to. form a longitudinally and laterally projecting guiding means of isosceles triangular form based on said body.

5. A protector .of the kind described, the body of which includes a middle portion and portions hinged to the opposite ends'of said middle portion, said middle portion and end portions having cooperating hair clamping members and also having lateral extensions coinciding when closed together to form a longitudinally projecting guiding means of isosceles triangular form'based on said bodyand means whereby said middle and end portions can be temporarily secured in closed portion.

6. A protector of the kind described, the body of which includes a middle portion and portions hinged to the opposite ends of said middle portion, said middle portion and 'end portions having cooperating hair clamping members and also having lateral extensions coinciding when closed together to form a longitudinally projecting guiding means of isosceles triangular form based on said body, means wherebysaid middle and end portions can be temporarily secured in closed position and means carried by said hinged end portions for applying pressure to said hair clampin'g'means.

JACOB A. KOLS. 

